Combination rubber and steel horseshoe



(No Model.)

7 E. 0. SGRIBNER. GOMBINATION RUBBER AND STEEL HORSBSYHOE.

No. 518,863. Patented Apr. 24, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT @rmon.

ELMER O. SORIBNER,'OF NEVERSINK, NEW YORK.

COMBINATION RUBBER AND STEEL HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 518,863, dated April24, 1894.

Application filed February 26. 1894. Serial No. 501,595. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

l 3e it known that I, ELMER O. SORIBNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Neversink, 1n the county of Sullivan and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Rubberand Steel Horseshoes; and I do declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Th1s 1nvention relates to certain new and useful improvements incombination rubber and steel shoes which are adj ustable, and which canbe adjusted to difierent sized hoofs, without the usual heating andwelding of the metalhc shoe so as to conform to the shape of the hoofwhen trimmed down as much as is deslred in readiness for the shoe to benailed thereto. j

A further object of this invention is to protallic portion beingadjusted to difierent sized hoofs and nailed thereto.

To these ends and to such others as the invent on may pertain, the sameconsists further 1n the novel construction, combination and adaptationof the parts, as will be herelnafter more fully described and thenspecifically defined in the appended claim.

I clearly illustrate my invention in the annexed drawings, which form apart of this speclfication, in which drawings similar letters ofreference indicate like parts throughout the several views, and inwhich' Figure 1, is a plan view, hoof side, of my combination shoe.Figs.2 and 3 are detail views of the metal portion of the shoe, in part,and the entire rubber portion separated B, are the calks which aremoderately thin so as to wear down uniformly with the rubber shoe 0,which is secured to the pivoted sectional metallic plate by beingvulcanized to its lower or calked surface, the .calks protruding throughthe apertures in the rubber shoe provided therefor.

D, D, are a series of holes in the rubber shoe which register with theholes D, D, in the metallic shoe, and nailsof a particular constructionare designed to be embedded in the rubber portion with their headsbearing against the metallic surface, or they may engage a thin layer ofthe rubber between their heads and the metallic surface, as an extrasecurity in holding the rubber shoe to the metallic portion, and by thisarrangement it will be seen that the rubber can gradually wear downtowardthe surface of the metallic surface without any interference fromthe nail heads, and the calks being of a thin metal, Will wear graduallyaway with the flexible portion. On the lower surface of the rubber shoeare the corrugations F, which serve to prevent the horse from slippingwhen traveling on slippery pavements or ice.

It will be seen that the rubber portion, although vulcanized to thesectional metallic portion A, will be capable of adjustment to hoofs ofdifferent sizes, owing to the elasticity of the rubber and pivotalmovements of the metallic base portion.

I am aware that it is not new to vulcanize a rubber shoe to a horse shoebetween the metallic portion and the hoof, by which arrangeloosened. Iam also aware that it is old to vment the nails are very likely tobecome construct metallic shoes in sections, and hence I do not claimthese broadly.

What I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A horse shoe comprising in combination a compound shoe being capable ofadjustment to metallic base portion made up of two or more sectionspivoted together with two free ends tapering as described, a rubber shoevulcanized to the lower or calked surface of the metallic portion,apertures in the rubber portion for the reception of the calks,nail-holes which register with holes in the metallic portions, rubbercorrugations as shown, the said to hoofs of difierent sizes,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ELMER G. SGRIBNER. Witnesses:

HARVEY J. SARLES, WILIBER G. KRUM.

